"Heavier-than-air Flying Machines are impossible"

  Lord Kelvin - President of the Royal Society - 1895

    Heavier-than-air machines, one piloted by the New Zealander Richard Pearse in March 1904 and the other by the American Wright Brothers in December 1904, left the ground under their own power.

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